Forschungsforum WiSe 26/27

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Titel: Musicking TikTok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context
Ort: Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65–67, Oman-Saal (Z.1.29)

Juan Bermúdez, Graz

Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung der GMPU mit der Abt. Visuelle Kultur der Universität Klagenfurt

This ethnographic work about TikTok’s musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and builds upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces. It highlights the aural and visual elements of TikTok’s interface as well as the technical-performative possibilities that it allows. Bermúdez explores how performers move from being “ordinary users” to becoming TikTokers, developing and performing an identity he calls TikTok Persona. The so-called TikTokers create a sense of identity and community through their performances. This study suggests that a digital performance can be, aside from a representation of reality, an integral part of it, serving as a fundamental space for constructing and performing identity.